Oklahoma § 41-132 - Tenant's failure to comply with rental agreement or

§ 41-132. Tenant's failure to comply with rental agreement or

perform duties - Rights and duties of landlord.

A. Except as otherwise provided in the Oklahoma Residential

Landlord and Tenant Act, if there is a noncompliance by the tenant

with the rental agreement or with Section 127 of this title which

noncompliance can be remedied by repair, replacement of a damaged

item, or cleaning and the tenant fails to comply as promptly as

conditions require in the case of an emergency or within ten (10)

days after written notice served as provided in subsection E of

Section 111 of this title by the landlord specifying the breach and

requiring that the tenant remedy it within that period of time, the

landlord may enter the dwelling unit and cause the work to be done

in a workmanlike manner and thereafter submit the itemized bill for

the actual and reasonable cost or the fair and reasonable value

thereof as rent on the next date rent is due, or if the rental

agreement has terminated, for immediate payment. If the landlord

remedies the breach as provided in this subsection, the landlord may

not terminate the rental agreement by reason of the tenant's failure

to remedy the breach.

B. Except as otherwise provided in the Oklahoma Residential

Landlord and Tenant Act, if there is a material noncompliance by the

tenant with the rental agreement or with any provision of Section

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 41. Landlord and Tenant

127 of this title, the landlord may deliver to the tenant a written

notice served as provided in subsection E of Section 111 of this

title specifying the acts and omissions constituting the

noncompliance and that the rental agreement will terminate upon a

date not less than fifteen (15) days after receipt of the notice

unless remedied within ten (10) days. If the breach is not remedied

within ten (10) days from receipt of the notice, the rental

agreement shall terminate as provided in the notice. If within the

ten (10) days the tenant adequately remedies the breach complained

of, or if the landlord remedies the breach according to the

provisions of subsection A of this section, the rental agreement

shall not terminate by reason of the breach. Any subsequent breach

of the lease or noncompliance under this section shall be grounds,

upon written notice to the tenant, for immediate termination of the

lease.

C. Notwithstanding other provisions of this section, if there

is a noncompliance by the tenant with the rental agreement or with

any of the provisions of Section 127 of this title, which

noncompliance causes or threatens to cause imminent and irremediable

harm to the premises or to any person and which noncompliance is not

remedied by the tenant as promptly as conditions require after the

tenant has notice of it, the landlord may terminate the rental

agreement by immediately filing a forcible entry and detainer

action.

D. Any criminal activity that threatens the health, safety or

right of peaceful enjoyment of the premises by other tenants

committed by a tenant or by any member of the tenant's household or

any guest or other person under the tenant's control or is a danger

to the premises and any drug-related criminal activity on or near

the premises by the tenant or by any member of the tenant's

household or any guest or other person under the tenant's control

shall be grounds for immediate termination of the lease.

Added by Laws 1978, c. 257, § 32, eff. Oct. 1, 1978. Amended by

Laws 1982, c. 251, § 2, emerg. eff. May 11, 1982; Laws 1989, c. 347,

§ 4, eff. Nov. 1, 1989; Laws 1991, c. 150, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1991;

Laws 1996, c. 339, § 13, eff. Nov. 1, 1996; Laws 1998, c. 306, § 12,

eff. Nov. 1, 1998.